video/utils/kmscon, branch master

kmscon: depend on input-support for the evdev nodes

2026-09-30T11:28:18Z

kmscon reads its keyboard from /dev/input directly through libudev, so it needs the input group and the hotplug rule that input-support ships. It has no libevdev or libinput dependency to inherit that from, unlike the compositors in this feed. The DRM side already comes from libdrm. Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle

kmscon: split the OpenGL ES path into kmscon-mod-gl

2026-09-28T23:17:38Z

kmscon depends on a libmesa provider, so every system with a KMS console pulls in Mesa, but the main binary links none of it: the GL code lives entirely in mod-drm3d.so and mod-gltex.so, which are dlopened from a directory scan of the module directory. The software renderer bbulk is built into the binary, the drm2d backend needs only libdrm, and hwaccel is off by default, so Mesa is unused on a default install and the modules are absent-tolerant by construction. Ship those two modules as kmscon-mod-gl and build them only when it is selected. A system that carries Mesa for other reasons installs the package and starts kmscon with --hwaccel; everything else gets a console with no Mesa in the build at all. Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle

kmscon: add terminal emulator for KMS devices

2026-09-26T11:41:58Z

A system without a framebuffer console has no text console at all. kmscon draws a terminal straight onto a DRM device, through OpenGL ES where the GPU allows and in software on the same device otherwise. Device access goes through libseat, so the seat owns the drm device and the vt rather than kmscon reaching for both itself. That needs seatd, which is a small daemon and already starts before this service. Built without the fbdev backend and with the built-in PC screen font, so it needs neither pango nor freetype. The service is off until enabled, so it does not take the display from whatever else is using it. Two patches are carried. The first keeps the unifont generator, a native helper linked against zlib for the build machine, out of a build that has the unifont backend disabled, which otherwise breaks cross compilation. The second stops an error loop: a render-only drm node answers NULL to drmModeGetResources, which the hotplug path treated as an error and returned from the poll handler, so kmscon wrote 776 error lines in eighty seconds on a board where the GPU enumerates before the display controller. Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle